The Linux System: An Open-Source Operating System (OS)

This is a computer science engineering quiz on the operating systems, which includes questions on the Linux system which is a type of open-source operating system.

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Which one of the following bootloader is not used by linux?

GRUB LILO NTLDR None of the mentioned

Which one is true for unconditional disk formatting?

Destroys every byte of data on a disk by overwriting it with with blank spaces Do not check/scan surface after format Transfer system files after format All of above

What is the function of radio button?

To select multiple option To select single option To select all option All of above

Linux uses a time-sharing algorithm ___________.

To pair preemptive scheduling between multiple processes

For tasks where absolute priorities are more important than fairness

All of the mentioned

None of the mentioned

The first linux kernel which supports the SMP hardware?

Linux 0.1

Linux 1.0

Linux 1.2

Linux 2.0

Which one of the following linux file system does not support journaling feature?

Ext2

Ext3

Ext4

None of the mentioned

Which binary format is supported by linux?

a.out

Elf

both a.out and ELF

None of the mentioned

The most recent version of MAC OS is based on the ...... operating system.

Windows

Linux

Unix

CMOS

In Windows, start button is used to______.

Run applications

Device setting

Turn off the system

All of above

Once the text has been cut to the clipboard, you can ...... that text into another document.

Paste

Copy

Transfer

None of the above

A thread is also called ___________.

Light Weight Process(LWP)

Heavy Weight Process(HWP)

Process

None of the mentioned

A thread shares its resources(like data section, code section, open files, signals) with ___________.

Other process similar to the one that the thread belongs to

Other threads that belong to similar processes

Other threads that belong to the same process

All of the mentioned

A heavy weight process ___________.

Has multiple threads of execution

Has a single thread of execution

Can have multiple or a single thread for execution

None of the mentioned

A process having multiple threads of control implies ___________.

It can do more than one task at a time

It can do only one task at a time, but much faster

It has to use only one thread per process

None of the mentioned

Resource sharing helps ___________.

Share the memory and resources of the process to which the threads belong

An application have several different threads of activity all within the same address space

Reduce the address space that a process could potentially use

All of the mentioned

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: The Linux System: An Open-Source Operating System (OS)
Questions: 15
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